Amazon Sr Software Development Engineer reviews

3.2

50% would recommend to a friend

(119 total reviews)
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34% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Sr Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 119 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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119 reviews
5.0
Apr 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Big opportunities, work satisfaction, immediate realization of customer impact, big ROI for the hard work and big impact. Always fun to work on any project.

Cons

Operations load and resource crunch can sometimes affect the productivity and slow down innovation.

5.0
Dec 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

AWS gives its engineers a tremendous amount of responsibility and empowers them to do whatever it takes to meet customer needs. As a Senior Software Development Engineer you are responsible for requirements analysis, architecture design, software design, project management, software implemention, testing and operations for teams of 4 - 20 engineers. The services you are responsible for could have thousands to hundreds of thousands of customers and involve internet scale parallel computing problems.

Cons

There is no net. At AWS you have the opportunity to create highly visible systems that many well known companies build their business on. If you break something you created, it's on you to discover the problem, diagnose and fix it before it causes pain for customers. This can be stressful at times because you effective "own the business", at least from a technical perspective.

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